Improvement in packages of plug-tobacco



. is usually treated.

UNITED STATEsP TENrO-FFIGE.

LEONARD J. GORDON, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, 'ASSIGNOR TO P.

LORILLARD AND COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PACKAGES OF PLUG-TOBACCO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 211, 39 1, datedJanuary 14, 1879; application filed October 19, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONARD J. GORDON, of Jersey City, Hudson county, inthe State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements Relating to Plug- Tobacco, of which the following is aspecification:

I make plugs of the proper size and form, properly compressed together,but without the usual wrapper of tobacco-leaf. I wrap each of thesefirst in .paraffine paper, or analogous cheap material, impervious toair and moisture, and then wrap over this with thin this specification,and is a perspective view of 1 one of my plugs, with a portion of eachof the two coverings removed.

Referring to the letters of reference marked thereon, A is the body ofthe plug, formed of good tobacco, but only the filling. The usual broadleaf of dark or bright tobacco is omitted. This filling is supplied inproper quantity, and is treated at the several stages in the same manneras the fully-completed plug When it is properly finished it is enwrappedin a piece of thin paraffine paper, such as can be readily bought in thetrade by that name, the piece being of sufficient size to cover the plugand overlap considerably at all the junctions.

The plug thus finished and wrapped in paraffine paper is next wrapped ina coating of pure tin-foil, the piece being of suificient size tooverlap at all the junctions. The plug,

having the impervious envelope of prepared paper and the exteriorenvelope of metal, is now subjected to a further compressive treatment,substantially similar to the compression of the ordinary tobacco-wrapperupon the filling of an ordinary plug.

By preference 1 simply repeat the finishing process after theseenvelopes have been added. The impervious paper is, by this pressure,caused to adhere very tightly to the filling, corresponding to theadherence of the tobacco-wrapper to the filling of an ordinary plug.

Instead of paraffine paper, any other cheap material may be employedwhich is by its nature, or by reason of any treatment to which it hasbeen subjected, impervious to air and moisture.

.I prefer pure tin for the exterior coating, for

the reason that objectionable salts are liable to be formed by thecorrosion of metals containing lead.

In case a baser metal should by any chance he used, the interior coatingof impervious paper, or the like impervious material, prevents thechemical action which would otherwise ensue. N 0 action can result, evenif the metal were very largely lead.

The impervious paper also prevents any of the metal foil from becomingmechanically engaged with the tobacco so as to get into the mouth.

The impervious paper may serve, with some success, alone; but I muchprefer the addition of the outer coat of metal.

The doubly-coated plug-tobacco described is attractive in appearance andconvenient for use. The preparation avoids the cost of the ordinaryexpensive tobacco-wrapper, and avoids the bitter taste common in thewrappin g-tobacco.

Experiment indicates that tobacco thus inclosed is not liable to mold ormildew, sour, or ferment. It is not liable to break or crumble in thepocket, nor to either become soiled or to soil other objects.

The process or method of treatment by which I produce this improvedproduct is made the subject of a separate application for patent.

I claim as my invention- 1. The within-described tobacco-plug, composedof the prepared and compressed filling" 0, applied and cornpressedtogether as and Without any Wrapper of leaf-tobacco, and havfor thepurposes herein specified.

ing an impervious coating of parafline paper, In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set or analogous material, compressed thereon, my handthis 18th day of October, 1878, in the and serving as and for thepurposes herein presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

specified. LEONARD J. GORDON.

2. The doubly-wrapped tobacco-plug de- Witnesses: scribed, composed ofthe filling A, impervious E. W. SOMERS,

paper or analogous material B, and metal foil J. N. HOLTON.

